Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldOops
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    17 hours ago

    In addition to the ability to jog, run and walk during the hottest part of the day … early humans could avoid most predators who were less capable of being active in the heat. The benefits of being a hairless sweaty upright ape.





  • Like I said in a previous post … unions are a good thing for society in general. I’ve always supported them because I learned from labour leaders and supporters that any kind of labour law or benefit we enjoy today was made possible because people a hundred years ago protested and held strikes in order to make it possible.

    Weekends? Workplace safety? Child labour laws? Workplace hours? Time off? Minimum Wage? Workers benefits? Compensation? Holidays? Paid time off?

    All of it was made possible by workers unions and union workers who fought to make it all possible. None of it was freely given by companies, corporations or businesses … and much of the time, unions also had to fight governments in order to make these things possible.

    And to show how supportive companies and corporations are about these things … big business has constantly done their very best to take away, ignore or sideline all these benefits. If companies had always had their way, they wouldn’t mind setting up a world where there was nothing but slave labour working for absolutely nothing until they died.

    This isn’t about communism or socialism … it’s just basic human ethics and fairness. The world shouldn’t expect workers to just work for as little as possible or even for nothing while companies reap all the benefits of their labour.



  • “Pareidolia - is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

    Neat photo and as an Indigenous Canadian, I have my own stories and I have known many other people who have had many visions of things in a fire.

    We have a traditional during ceremonial events like Pow Wows where a fire is kept burning during the entire time of the event. The fire is kept burning day and night and it is usually maintained by a group of ‘fire keepers’ and many of them tend to the fire all night long without sleep because they do not want the fire to burn out. And depending on the event, whether a ceremonial gathering or a PowWow, the event may last a single day or multiple days or even a week or two.

    It’s during those long nights of staring into the flames and coals that fire keepers get to have visions or signs of things, people, animals or ideas that come to them. The combination of staring into an ever changing light in the dark mixed with extreme fatigue and sleeplessness and insomnia really play on a person’s mind and perception. Scientifically speaking, it is documented that if you stay awake without sleep longer than 48 hours, you might as well be drunk and intoxicated.

    The visions and insights that fire keepers have during their work is always different. Sometimes it is good, sometimes helpful, but it can also become frightful or even disturbing. But our Elders are always there to help with interpretations and meanings.

    And it also isn’t just reserved for Firekeepers … stuff like this happens when you are just out camping. You work all day, you struggle, you eat, you drink, you get hurt, and by the end of the day you are exhausted but you still have to stay up for a while to eat and drink and prepare for sleep … so you end up staring at the flames while dazed and confused … those are the moments when you start seeing shapes, objects and even people and faces in the fire.

    Keep an open mind and open heart … don’t give into your worries and fears … and you will find more thoughtful and insightful visions in the flames.




  • A better protest would be to absolutely boycott one single company. Just pick one company and just completely shut them out. Pick a grocery store chain … just completely blank them out … or a clothing store brand, just completely block them … or a gas station chain, just shut them down.

    Go about your regular shopping and spending … just avoid one company that everyone agrees on. Keep up the boycott until you drive that one company into the ground or just completely wipe them out.

    Then move on to the next company … and keep doing it over and over again.

    This way, everyone can keep up their habits of wanting to spend money on whatever they want. No one person would ever really be terribly inconvenienced. Most people would not notice any changes and everyone could go about doing what they always did with minor changes … but it would send a very strong message to every company out there what power people have over them.